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CJI Founders and Co-Principals
Jack McCray –
Jazz Journalist; Jazz and Features Writer, Copy Editor, and
Reporter with Charleston’s Post and Courier, and native Charlestonian CJI Project Staff
Tony Bell,
CEO, Renaissance Media, Charleston (CJI Videographer and
Webmaster) College of Charleston Student Volunteers
The Charleston Jazz Initiative (CJI) Circle is a “network” of local, national and international colleagues who help “connect” CJI principals and project staff to research, oral history interviewees, archival collections, public programming, original and creative work, and marketing and fundraising sources articulated in CJI’s Strategic Plan. Joseph P. Riley, Mayor, City of Charleston, Honorary Co-Chair Lee Higdon, President, College of Charleston, Honorary Co-Chair Emmanuel Abdul-Rahim, percussionist, President, EastWest Records, International, New York, NY and Copenhagen, Denmark Teddy Adams, trombonist, Past President, Savannah Jazz Society, Savannah Jim Alexander, documentary photographer, Atlanta Elease Amos-Goodwin, Coordinator, MOJA Arts Festival, Office of Cultural Affairs, Charleston Alvin Batiste, Clarinetist, New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts, New Orleans Quentin Baxter, drummer, Adjunct Professor of Music, College of Charleston Tony Bell, President, Renaissance Media, Charleston Walter Boags, hospitality and tourism administrator, Charleston Barbara Braithwaite, granddaughter of Reverend Daniel Joseph (Eloise) Jenkins, Charleston; Board Member, Jenkins Institute for Children, Inc., Charleston Carlyle Brown, Playwright and Performance Curator, Minneapolis Ann Caldwell, vocalist, Charleston Osei Chandler, radio personality, educator, Trident Technical College, Charleston John Chilton, author, A Jazz Nursery: The Story of the Jenkins’ Orphanage Bands, England The Dash Family: Dr. Roger Dash (Palm Desert, CA), Ernest Dash (Inglewood, CA) and John Dash (Charleston) Rachel Dowling, pianist/organist, Board Member, Jenkins Institute for Children, Inc., Charleston Dr. W. Marvin Dulaney, Director, Avery Research Center of African American History and Culture, College of Charleston Bob Ephiram, retired music educator, Charleston Adam Ferrell, Acquisitions Editor (South), Arcadia Publishing, Charleston Dr. David Franklin, retired jazz educator, Rock Hill, SC Curtis Franks, Coordinator of Exhibitions, Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture, College of Charleston Dr. Wilmot (Al) Fraser, retired educator and author of Dizzy: To Be or Not To Bop: The Autobiography of Dizzy Gillespie, Charleston Herb Frazier, Journalist, Post and Courier, Charleston Virginia Friedman, Vice President for Communications, College of Charleston Rob Gibson, Executive Director/Artistic Director, Savannah Music Festival, Savannah Jeffrey Green, historian, author, Edmund Thornton Jenkins: The Life and Times of an American Black Composer, 1894-1926, W. Sussex, England Sharony Green, Writer/Artist, Sharony Green Productions, Greensboro Harlan Greene, Project Archivist, Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture, College of Charleston Michael Grofsorean, Jazz Director, Spoleto Festival, USA, Michigan Lonnie Hamilton, saxophonist, former Charleston County Council member, Charleston Julie Hubbert, Assistant Professor of Music, University of South Carolina, Center for Southern African American Music, Columbia Chester Jacinto, President, Chester Media Group, Mt. Pleasant, SC William Jackson, Charleston County Library, Charleston Joan Jeffri, Director, Program in Arts Administration, independent jazz researcher, Columbia University-Teachers College, New York Monifa Johnson, Volunteer Coordinator, Savannah Music Festival, Savannah Pat Jones, journalist and independent researcher, Charleston George Kenny, retired music educator, Charleston Minerva King, media specialist and teacher, Charleston County Public Schools Dr. Wolfram Knauer, Director, Jazz-Institut Darmstadt, Germany Lori Kornegay, Arts Management Program, College of Charleston Deborah Macanic, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, Washington,DC Frank Martin, Director, I.P. Stanback Museum and Planetarium, South Carolina State University, Orangeburg Cynthia McCottry Smith, retired educator and volunteer, Avery graduate, Charleston Anthony McKnight, Family of James Jamerson, Charleston Joey Morant, trumpeter, New York Dan Morgenstern, Director, Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University Elaine Nichols, Curator of African American History, South Carolina State Museum, Columbia Karen Nickless, Director, Edisto Island Museum, Edisto Island Historic Preservation Society DeNatalie Phillips, marketing consultant, Atlanta Vincent Plush, composer and independent researcher, Queensland, Australia Leila Potts-Campbell, Associate Director, Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture, College of Charleston; President, Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture Sherman Pyatt, Archivist, Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture, College of Charleston Raymond Rhett, retired music educator, Charleston Walter Rhett, independent tour guide and researcher, Charleston Dr. Larry Ridley, bassist, Executive Director, African American Jazz Caucus of the International Association for Jazz Education; Jazz Artist-in-Residence, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Oscar Rivers, music educator, Charleston Dr. Dale Rosengarten, oral historian and researcher, College of Charleston Willie Ruff, hornist, bassist; Professor of Music and Founding Director of the Duke Ellington Fellowship Program, Yale University Scott Shanklin-Peterson, Director, Arts Management Program, College of Charleston Alada Shinault-Small, Program Associate, Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture, College of Charleston Dr. Sabra Slaughter, Chief of Staff, Office of the President, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston Mark Sloan, Director, Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, College of Charleston Allan “Dr. Licks” Slutsky, author, Standing in the Shadows of Motown: The Life and Music of Legendary Bassist James Jamerson, Cherry Hill, NJ Theron Snype, educator, Charleston A.B. Spellman, author, poet, critic; former Deputy Chairman, National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, DC Willie Strong, Assistant Professor of Music, University of South Carolina, Center for Southern African American Music, Columbia Michael Tyzack, studio artist, former Chair, Department of Studio Art, College of Charleston Joy Vandervort-Cobb, Associate Professor of African American Theatre, College of Charleston Dr. Trevor Weston, Assistant Professor of Music, College of Charleston Lucille Whipper, former South Carolina legislator, Charleston Deborah Wright, Archivist, Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture, College of Charleston Kathleen Wyer-Lane, Marketing Consultant, New York Jomo Zimbabwe, nephew of Edmund Thornton Jenkins, educator, Boston
The Charleston Jazz Initiative thanks you for your generous support since March 2003.
Avery
Institute of Afro-American History and Culture, Inc.
Housing Authority of the City of Charleston
Department of History,
College of Charleston
Department of Music, College
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